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  1. Texasota
    pretty sure that's just formwork...
  2. Texasota
    Well, no, it would increase its capacity substantially. It would make it harder for people in cars to speed down Washington to get Downtown, but that seems like a good thing to me. You people have I-10, Memorial, AND Allen Parkway. You're fine.
  3. Texasota
    What's Canyon Lake?
  4. Texasota
    Which is exactly correct. Cars can move. Car storage is exactly the kind of thing that should be put in flood-prone areas (if you're going to put anything there at all), rather than an actual use like housing or retail.
  5. Texasota
    It's a bit simplified from the drawings, but from the (I believe three) sets of imagery we've seen, this actually reflects two of them EXCEPT all three designs have had a clearly separated/differentiated northwest corner. Otherwise this is very much the design they've shown since at least as far back as 2015: http://www.hbginc.com/projects/multihousing-and-mixed-use/historic-texaco-building-apartments/#.VWbWZE_BzGc. I would also say it's pretty similar to a design we say in 2014 (not the one that shows up in the thumbnail):
  6. Texasota
    In the interest of balance if nothing else, I genuinely like this. I'll reserve final judgment until it's actually done, but I like its simplicity, its industrial materials, and its relative openness. This is not just a big solid block like so many parking garages.
  7. Texasota
    I mean, most of the new midrises and high rises are quite a bit cheaper than that, but that square footage number seems pretty arbitrary to me as well. I *do* think number of bedrooms is potentially an issue for anyone trying to raise a family, and I'm not sure there are there are that many 3 bedroom units being built.
  8. Texasota
    Wow. Criticizing a building, even in immature fashion, is not the same as picking on nuns. You can criticize a decision someone made without "picking on them."
  9. Texasota
    Ha! You have apparently never spoken to an architect.
  10. Texasota
    As has been noted before, this is an architecture forum. The entire point of this website is to examine, criticize, and celebrate architecture. And this thing is not infill. It it not making this site "more urban." This is one building replacing another. It is entirely appropriate to compare the two buildings, and, just because this thing is newer and (somewhat) bigger does not mean it is better.
  11. Texasota
    It's just a building; reverence is neither necessary or appropriate. This isn't a chapel, or a church, or a cathedral, or a temple, or any other sort of house of worship. It's a school building. An ugly, turd-esque school building.
  12. Texasota
    man, those green beans...
  13. Texasota
    BUT WAIT!! Just hear me out. What if they were somehow able to acquire the Ashby highrise site??? They could create a perfect rectangle of HEBs! It could be its own neighborhood!
  14. Texasota
    It's 1.5 miles from the Buffalo Speedway location and exactly one mile from the Dunlavy location. I'm not sure any neighborhood in Houston has the population density to warrant that many HEBs this close together.
  15. Texasota
    Bad HDR. It's an epidemic.
  16. Texasota
    It looks like you can actually get into Skyhouse for cheaper, albeit with a smaller unit. The thing is, today's affordable housing is yesterday's luxury housing. It is very difficult to make new housing that's genuinely affordable to people. I actually think the DLI is great because it incentivized new housing in an area where it was unlikely to result in the replacement of existing affordable housing with new luxury stock. It just created more housing overall. It will be interesting to see how these buildings age. I kinda think the Skyhouses are the best overall - they're actually borderline affordable now, and, since they're not just stick construction, are likely to still be going strong well after their initial construction costs have been absorbed.
  17. Texasota
    oh dang y'all. Was not expecting this.
  18. Texasota
    Every off street parking space takes away space for an actual business, residence, or other use. What is the negative impact of using on-street parking as much as possible? Again, if most people who live in the Heights have off-street parking (which has certainly been my experience) then non-residents aren't really competing directly with residents for these spaces. Not to harp on this, but I really think it's important. There has to be a reason for streets not to be "clogged up" with cars. Is it aesthetic? Is it speed? And is it a good enough reason to waste an existing resource and shift the burden onto individual businesses? Is it a good enough reason to exchange additional space for parking rather than an actual use?
  19. Texasota
    Why is limiting cars parked on the street a good thing? If there's street parking available than that's exactly what's it's for, and I have to imagine that the vast majority of Heights residents have off-street parking.
  20. Texasota
    ugh, no good can come of this.
  21. Texasota
    I agree that this is a great approach. That massive parking lot is just vacant land right now; it's adjacent to the RR tracks with no through street; it will be easy to redevelop it either by parts or a as a whole in the future; just bank a massive amount of parking so you don't have to deal with city requirements while you focus on the Washington frontage.
  22. Texasota
    I would say this part of downtown in particular needs more, especially with three new apartment buildings.
  23. Texasota
    The city requires between 1.25 and 2 spaces per apartment. http://www.houstontx.gov/planning/DevelopRegs/docs_pdfs/parking_req.pdf This project will have plenty of parking.
  24. Texasota
    Bueno. Coffee shops desperately needed downtown.
  25. Texasota
    The shopping center is a city Historic Landmark, meaning the owner has to submit plans to the historic commission, but their decision is only binding for 90 days.
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